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ISHARES S&P/TSX REIT INDEX ETF, $19.63, is a hold. The ETF (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) lets investors tap all 19 Canadian real estate investment trusts in the S&P/TSX REIT Index. Investors pay an MER of 0.61%, and the REIT fund gives you a 2.8% yield.


The ETF’s top holdings are Canadian Apart....

The Bank of Canada cut its benchmark interest rate to 0.25% in early 2020. That was to support economic activity after COVID-19 hit. Whether the bank continues to hold that rate steady, cuts it again or, more likely, raises it depends on Canada’s economy and employment levels.


Meanwhile, today’s low interest rates make bonds unattractive....

ISHARES INDIA 50 ETF, $49.62, is a buy. The ETF (Nasdaq symbol INDY; buy or sell through brokers; us.ishares.com) tracks the Nifty 50 index—the 50 largest, most-liquid Indian securities. It began trading in November 2009.


The top holdings are Reliance Industries (conglomerate), 10.6%; HDFC Bank, 8.8%; Infosys (information technology), 8.5%; ICICI Bank, 6.7%; Housing Development Finance, 6.6%; Tata Consultancy (information tech), 4.9%; Kotak Mahindra Bank, 4.0%; and Larsen & Toubro (conglomerate), 3.8%....

Generally speaking, Canadians are blocked from buying mutual funds that are registered in the U.S. unless those funds are also registered with provincial securities commissions. (Moreover, some Canadian mutual funds are only available in a limited number of provinces.)


Investors in this country can, however, buy exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, listed on U.S....

A: KraneShares Emerging Markets Healthcare Index ETF, $28.73, symbol KMED on New York (Units outstanding: 100.0 million; Market cap: $2.9 billion; www.kraneshares.com), mirrors the Solactive Emerging Markets Healthcare Index.

This index tracks companies engaged in the health-care segment of various emerging markets....

Dear Inner Circle Member,

You may draw a blank when you hear the term “poka yoke,” but it’s a good bet that you run into examples of it every day.

The term was coined in the 1960s by a worker in a Japanese Toyota plant. A poka yoke is a feature of a manufactured product that aims to prevent using the product in a costly, harmful or dangerous way....

October turned out to be a great month for all kinds of riskier assets. Top performers were commodities, with oil and copper leading the way. Precious metal producers also made strong gains while the energy and commodity-heavy Canadian indexes were spurred by those gains....

This month we look at the first crypto ETF that steers clear of direct investment in cryptocurrencies, and a Canadian ETF focusing on emerging market equities.


Eight months after Canada saw the launch of the first cryptocurrency ETFs, ProShares managed to get approval from U.S....

The May 2017 election of Emmanuel Macron as France’s new president promised a turnaround for the French economy. Despite some early successes, the COVID-19 pandemic slowed progress on the economic front. But the long-term outlook for the economy is positive as it continues to recover in a post-pandemic world.


France is home to several of the top luxury goods companies in the world....

Large ETFs can generate additional income by lending (or “renting”) shares held in the portfolio to counterparties. These counterparties are usually large financial institutions or dealer-brokers that allow clients to sell shares of a particular company short. The counterparty will be required to deposit collateral (mostly cash) with the ETF and also pay “rent” for the term that the security is on loan.


The ETF generates income from the collateral by placing it in a money market fund as well as from the negotiated “rent” for the lending of the shares....